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Pacific FishermanA NEW CODFISH PLANT FOR ANACORTESBv FRANK CARLETON TECKAnacortes has several viral seaport advantages that, considered altogether, make that city very attractive to the fishery interests and render it quite probable that Anacortes will be the ultimate center for the permanent grouping of all the various branches of the fisheries of the Pacific Coast. In fact, Anacortes is already the principal salmon canning and codfish curing point in Washington, having six salmon canneries and two large codfish packing establishments, the latter operating four deep sea fishing vessels in Bering Sea this year. Two shipbuilding and repairing plants and two of the largest fish by-products factories in America are also located there, including the immense and elaborate glue, oil and fertilizer plant which the Russia Cement Co. has had under construction for more than a year and which is now nearing completion. Owing to this preponderance of fishery industry Anacortes is already referred to. even by the fishery press of the Atlantic Coast, as "The Gloucester of the Pacific."The adaptability of Anacortes as a central station forbeaver marsh of the Skagit River Valley.Another noteworthy addition to the magnitude of the Anacortes fisheries establishments has just been made known by President Will A. Lowman, of the White Crest Canning Co., who announces that his company will at the close of the present fishing season at once begin large extensions and additions to its present plant on the Anacortes waterfront, practically doubling the outputting capacity of the salmon cannery and adding new relative equipment, at the same time erecting and equipping a complete codfish packing plant to have an initial capacity of 350 to 400 tons of codfish for the season of 1909.The general plans for this establishment have been practically completed and the main codfish packing building will be located adjoining the present salmon cannery buildings on the west side. Next spring a new codfishing schooner owned by the White Crest company will be sent to Bering Sea for the season's supply of fish. This will increase the present Anacortes fleet of Bering Sea, fourPLANT OF THE WHITE CREST CANNING COMPANY AT ANACORTES.the fisheries of the West may be summed up in one 'comprehensive paragraph: It is the natural gateway close to the salmon grounds of Puget Sound; it is the nearest American city, having railroad connection, to the Straits of Fuca and the Pacific Ocean; although on Fidalgo Island, it is reached by both rail and wagon bridges from the mainland; it has a protected deepwater harbor never disturbed by destructive storms and high seas, being hemmed in by islands; it has more than three miles of available deep water frontage and excellent waterfront locations for cannery and factory sites, prices of which have not been subject to inflation by the fever of a large city; the facts that the city has a population of more than 6,000 and that about 1,000 white men are employed in lumber and other manufacture restricted to the work of men, add to the facility of the local labor situation as applied to the lighter tasks common to the fisheries, while a considerable element of local fishery labor is supplied by the Swinomish Indian reservation, near the city. Anothe-important feature of the Anacortes argument is the proximity of the city to the most productive and extensively developed farm region in the Puget Sound basin, including the famous Samish and Swinomish flats and the rich deltavessels, to at least five, while it is likely that the actual number of Anacortes codfish vessels in the north next year will be seven or eight-Mr. Lowman has been studying the codfish industry for several years and has become convinced that it offers wholesome oppprtunities for good profits, with less doubtful return than is true of even the salmon industry, and that success in the codfish business lies more with efficient and careful handling of the fish at the packing plant than with the uncertainties of the fishing grounds, or the dangers of the deep.It is well known that not only Alaska halibut, but Alaska codfish also, have been shipped by our people to the Atlantic Coast to supply the raw material to the halibut and codfish plants of the Atlantic and that these Western fish have thus been prepared and sold in the East as Atlantic product, which is accepted as the best in the world.The site on which the present White Crest cannery is located and which is owned by the White Crest Canning Co., is one of the choicest Anacortes harbor properties, located in front of the city proper, having a deepwater frontage of 550 feet by 600 feet of depth, from the outer harbor (Continued on Page 20.)Seattle, Wash., (D. S. A.August, I90H

Pacific FishermanA NEW CODFISH PLANT FOR ANACORTESBv FRANK CARLETON TECKAnacortes has several viral seaport advantages that, considered altogether, make that city very attractive to the fishery interests and render it quite probable that Anacortes will be the ultimate center for the permanent grouping of all the various branches of the fisheries of the Pacific Coast. In fact, Anacortes is already the principal salmon canning and codfish curing point in Washington, having six salmon canneries and two large codfish packing establishments, the latter operating four deep sea fishing vessels in Bering Sea this year. Two shipbuilding and repairing plants and two of the largest fish by-products factories in America are also located there, including the immense and elaborate glue, oil and fertilizer plant which the Russia Cement Co. has had under construction for more than a year and which is now nearing completion. Owing to this preponderance of fishery industry Anacortes is already referred to. even by the fishery press of the Atlantic Coast, as "The Gloucester of the Pacific."The adaptability of Anacortes as a central station forbeaver marsh of the Skagit River Valley.Another noteworthy addition to the magnitude of the Anacortes fisheries establishments has just been made known by President Will A. Lowman, of the White Crest Canning Co., who announces that his company will at the close of the present fishing season at once begin large extensions and additions to its present plant on the Anacortes waterfront, practically doubling the outputting capacity of the salmon cannery and adding new relative equipment, at the same time erecting and equipping a complete codfish packing plant to have an initial capacity of 350 to 400 tons of codfish for the season of 1909.The general plans for this establishment have been practically completed and the main codfish packing building will be located adjoining the present salmon cannery buildings on the west side. Next spring a new codfishing schooner owned by the White Crest company will be sent to Bering Sea for the season's supply of fish. This will increase the present Anacortes fleet of Bering Sea, fourPLANT OF THE WHITE CREST CANNING COMPANY AT ANACORTES.the fisheries of the West may be summed up in one 'comprehensive paragraph: It is the natural gateway close to the salmon grounds of Puget Sound; it is the nearest American city, having railroad connection, to the Straits of Fuca and the Pacific Ocean; although on Fidalgo Island, it is reached by both rail and wagon bridges from the mainland; it has a protected deepwater harbor never disturbed by destructive storms and high seas, being hemmed in by islands; it has more than three miles of available deep water frontage and excellent waterfront locations for cannery and factory sites, prices of which have not been subject to inflation by the fever of a large city; the facts that the city has a population of more than 6,000 and that about 1,000 white men are employed in lumber and other manufacture restricted to the work of men, add to the facility of the local labor situation as applied to the lighter tasks common to the fisheries, while a considerable element of local fishery labor is supplied by the Swinomish Indian reservation, near the city. Anothe-important feature of the Anacortes argument is the proximity of the city to the most productive and extensively developed farm region in the Puget Sound basin, including the famous Samish and Swinomish flats and the rich deltavessels, to at least five, while it is likely that the actual number of Anacortes codfish vessels in the north next year will be seven or eight-Mr. Lowman has been studying the codfish industry for several years and has become convinced that it offers wholesome oppprtunities for good profits, with less doubtful return than is true of even the salmon industry, and that success in the codfish business lies more with efficient and careful handling of the fish at the packing plant than with the uncertainties of the fishing grounds, or the dangers of the deep.It is well known that not only Alaska halibut, but Alaska codfish also, have been shipped by our people to the Atlantic Coast to supply the raw material to the halibut and codfish plants of the Atlantic and that these Western fish have thus been prepared and sold in the East as Atlantic product, which is accepted as the best in the world.The site on which the present White Crest cannery is located and which is owned by the White Crest Canning Co., is one of the choicest Anacortes harbor properties, located in front of the city proper, having a deepwater frontage of 550 feet by 600 feet of depth, from the outer harbor (Continued on Page 20.)Seattle, Wash., (D. S. A.August, I90H